Week 38 - June 12-16

  • REACH EOY Wednesday
  • End of year production

Week 37 - June 5-9

  • Graduation Program
  • End of year production

Week 36 - May 29-June 2

No School Monday - Memorial Day
Thursday
  • Download Digital Media Logo from DM18
    • You may use it in your t-shirt design
  • Continue Class T-shirt
Wednesday
  • Download Bellerose Font
    • Use it to create a Class T-shirt
      • Curie Digital Media
      • Class of 2019
    • Colors
      • GOLD R=179 G=129 B=0
      • BLUE R=0. G=44. B=179
  • FatHeads
  • Graduation Cover
  • Class T-shirt

Week 35 - May 22-26

Week 34 - May 15-19

  • Design a Class T-shirt for silk screen. (continue)
    • No more than 3 colors, 1 or 2 is better.
    • Curie
    • Digital Media
    • Class of 2019

Week 33 - May 8-12

Friday
  • Design a Class T-shirt for silk screen.
    • No more than 3 colors, 1 or 2 is better.
    • Curie
    • Digital Media
    • Class of 2019
Monday - Thursday
  • Graduation Cover

Week 32 - May 1-5, 2017

Friday, May 5
  • Graduation Cover Project Introduction
    • Review Covers from past years
      • Notice none have bleed
      • Notice some pictures look soft, lacking definition and detail. Why?
    • Research images
      • Minimum size of 100kb
Thursday, May 4
  • Upload your new files to your web site.
Tuesday-Wednesday, May 2-3
  • Cut your cards on our industrial Paper Cutter
  • Did you turn in "UNDERSTANDER"?
Monday, May 1
  • In InDesign create a 10-up page of your business card.
  • We will do this as a class.

Week 31 - April 24-28, 2017

Business Card Design
  • Google "Business Cards" & "1 color logos"
  • Create a Type Logo from your initial(s)
  • Layout a business card (2" x 3.5")

Week 30 - April 17-21, 2017

Friday, April 21
Business Card Design
  • Google "Business Cards" & "1 color logos"
  • Create a Type Logo from your initial(s)
  • Layout a business card (2" x 3.5")
3-corporate-business-card-design.preview.jpg

Thursday, April 20 - REPORT CARD PICKUP - NO CLASSES

Monday - Wednesday, April 17-19
  • Complete Understander Ad

Understander_24.jpg

Week 29 - April 3-7, 2017

Monday, April 3 - Regular school day
  • Complete Understander Ad
Tuesday, April 4 Testing or Activities
Wednesday, April 5 Testing or Activities
Thursday, April 6 - Regular School Day - Last day of Q3
  • Last day to turn in assignments for Q3
Friday, April 7 - No school

Week 28 - March 27-31, 2017

Friday, March 31
  • Recreate the "Understander" Ad
Wednesday-Thursday, March 29-30
  • Today we will begin recreating the "Good Design" card on page 12 of the Robin Williams Design Book
    • Load the fonts provided on DM19
    • On your handout measure
      • height and width of card
      • font size of each used (write this on your handout)
Tuesday, March 28
  • Today we will learn to add guides and grids to help align our designs
Monday, March 27
  • Today we will learn to measure font and leading in points, using the typographers ruler
  • Turn in - Font and Leading Worksheet
  • Mr. Salzman needs to grade;
    • PARAGRAPH TOOLS SAMPLES
    • ADOBE ACCOUNT CREATION

Week 27 - March 20-24, 2017

Friday, March 24
  • Create an InDesign Page using all the options on the Paragraph Panel
  • http://loripsum.net for placeholder text
  • Turn in Video Notes
Thursday, March 23
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
  • Video: Beginning Graphic Design_ Typography
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
  • Video: Beginning Graphic Design_ Images
  • On your website
    • create a new page called "Design Principles" (under assignments)
    • add this sentence "According to the book Basics of Design by Lisa Graham the six Design Principles are;"
      • list them and define them (see pages 12-13)

Monday, March 20 - BEGIN INTRO TO GRAPHIC DESIGN unit
Hey Designers, today we will begin out unit on Graphic Design. So, what is graphic design, anyway? In order to start answering that question we will watch various videos.
  • Video: Beginning Graphic Design_ Layout & Composition

Week 26 - March 13-17, 2017

Friday, March 17
  • Upload Happy Holidays.
  • Complete any outstanding work
Thursday, March 16
  • Mr. Salzman is out today.
  • Finish People Magazine and Bancomer Ad and upload to your website (if you haven't done so yet)
  • Finish Happy Holidays and upload to your site.
Wednesday, March 15
  • Happy Holidays Photoshop - Directions provided. Google for a picture.
HappyHolidays.png

Tuesday, March 14
  • Upload People Magazine Cover and Bancomer Ad to your website
Monday, March 13
  • Video: Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are
  • Video: Sarah Kay: If I should have a daughter

Week 25 - March 6-10, 2017

Thursday-Friday, March 9-10
  • Create this People Magazine Cover
    • The photo of Lucero is on the server (W25_4_PeopleMagCover)
    • We already made the PEOPLE Mast head, but change the stroke color to gold.
    • Add a gold gradation for background.
    • Upload to your website.
  • Lucero.jpg
Wednesday, March 8
  • Check you grades!
  • Convert the ad to a .jpg and upload it to your website for grading
  • Complete any outstanding assignments.
Monday-Tuesday, March 6-7
  • Convert the ad to a .jpg and upload it to your website for grading
  • In Photoshop, create the Bancomer Ad. Follow the directions provided.
Bancomer.jpg

Week 24 - Feb 27-March 3, 2017

Friday, March 3
  • Hey Designers! To complete our PEOPLE Magazine mast head we need to ad the banner with the words "En ESPANOL"
    • The approach we will take (there are others) is to use a banner CUSTOM SHAPE and then EDIT-TRANSFORM-WARP.
    • For the text we will use the same approach, with this addition. Since Text starts as a vector format we need to "rasterize" the text. This changes the text for VECTOR to PIXELS (RASTER). Do this by TYPE->RASTERIZE TYPE LAYER
Thursday, March 2
  • Let's practice warping text. Go to DM19-W24_4_WarpLips. We will view the video together, then create the word shape.
archive_miscellaneous_red_lipstick_on_lips_023760_.jpgWarpLips2.png

Wednesday, March 1
  • VR and AR presentation. Mr. Daniel Contreras, Optimista
Tuesday, February 28

PeopleMasthead.png
  • Photoshop - Create PEOPLE Magazine masthead
    • Google "People Magazine" font.
    • Download the font (Ciaro) at DaFont.com
    • Install to your computer by double clicking on the font in "downloads"
    • In Photoshop
      • type the word "People"
      • Set to font size of 155
      • Set Kerning pairs as:
        • Pe = minus 160
        • eo = minus 60
        • op = minus 150
        • pl = minus 85
        • le = minus 120
      • At the bottom go the layers panel, at the fx option
        • add a 18 pt. stoke
        • color the stroke C=66, M=25, Y=0, K=0
      • Change the color of the text to white
      • At the bottom go the layers panel, at the fx option
        • add bevel and emboss, accept the default options
        • add a drop shadow, change the angle and softness to match the magazine
Monday, February 27
Hi Designers, Today we learn what is kerning and practice kerning.
Kerning_Issues.JPG
  • Open Photoshop and open the Character panel and locate the kerning and tracking tools.
  • Kerning adjusts the space between individual letter forms, while tracking (letter-spacing) adjusts spacing uniformly over a range of characters. In a well-kerned font, the two-dimensional blank spaces between each pair of characters all have a visually similar area.
  • The Kerning Game - you need at least 80 of 100 on all 10
  • Tracking Examples
Tracking.gifchallenge-poster-l.jpg

Week 23 - Feb 20-24, 2017
Friday, February 24
Hi Designers, Today we learn to outline images and add a drop shadow. YAY!
Get the files from DM19 W23_5_Outlining
Place the 5 outlined children on your website.
SAVE 3 as GIF's and 2 as JPG's!

Child1.jpg Child1.gif
Photoshop – Outlining and adding a drop shadow
1) Open the file
2) Duplicate the background layer and hide the original background layer
3) Use magnetic lasso to outline the baby, and other selection tools as needed
4) Inverse the selection
5) Delete white background
6) Add a drop shadow layer style (at bottom of layer panel - fx)

Bancomer.jpg

Tuesday-Thursday, February 21-23
  • Finish uploading your 20 photoshop assignments to your website. See Billy's for an example.
  • Many of you many need to complete the 3 assignments from Thursday February 16. Ask me for the tutorial instruction packets.

Monday, February 20 - NO SCHOOL, PRESIDENTS DAY

Week 22 - Feb 13-17, 2017

Friday, February 17
  • Hi Designers! We had only about half the class yesterday due to "The Day without Immigrants" I missed you and support you. In my opinion, our country without our immigrants would be half a country.
  • First order of business is to add all your photoshop assignments to your website. You will need to add a subpage "PHOTOSHOP" under MENU. Before uploading, convert the .psd to .jpg. (FILE->SAVE FOR WEB) Add all photoshop assignments from SNOWMAN (Jan 9). Dupree's Website
  • Upon completion, complete yesterdays assignments.
Thursday, February 16
  • Hi Designers! Today you will be adding Fireworks to a Photo. You will be using our favorite technique "layer mask". But what is new is changing the "Blend Mode" to screen. Blend modes change how layers interact with each other.
Night Sky.pngFireworks.png

  • Quick Selection and Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer
QuickSelection.jpgQuickSelectionDS.jpg

  • Overlapping Text with an Image
Baseball.png Baseball_Text.png


Wednesday, February 15
  • Check your grades.
  • Finish the Pumpkin
  • Finish any other missing work
  • Finish yesterday's assignments
Tuesday, February 14
butterfly.jpg

photoshop-effects-1.jpgphotoshop-effects-2.jpg

wedding-bride-groom.jpgwedding-bride-groomDS.jpg

moon-over-city.jpgmoon-over-cityDS.jpg

Monday, February 13
Magnetic Lasso Tool Worksheet
chinese-sculpture.jpgChinese_Background.jpg

Lasso Tool Worksheet
handshake.jpgbuilding.jpgbuildingDS.jpg

Week 21 - Feb 6-10, 2017

Friday, February 10
Polygonal Lasso Tool - Women in Billboard
BILLBOARD.pngBILLBOARD2.jpg

Polygonal Lasso Tool - Replace Sky
school.jpgdark_clouds_sky_sun-1600x900.jpg


Thursday, February 9
Photoshop - Create a Pumpkin with fall background, applying the process from the snowman.
  • Tools used:
    • elliptical selection tool
    • rectangular selection tool
    • EDIT > FILL
    • Save selection
    • Gradient in background
    • Brush tool shadow
    • Brush tool snow flakes
22191537-Pumpkin-Field-Vector-illustration-of-pumpkins-in-a-barrel-with-a-view-of-a-cultivated-land-Eps10-Stock-Vector.jpgpumpkin-patch-vector.jpg

Wednesday, February 8 - Magic Wand Selection
  • 1) Open Video using the application VLC.app
  • 2) Follow the video and perform the work.
    • Use these 3 files
    • 1Hearts and stars.jpg
    • 2Sky.jpg
    • 3Not_A_Santa.jpg
  • 3) Show Mr. Salzman your final documents
  • 4) Using any or all selection tools you have learned replace the sky with a gradient adjustment layer on the following 3 files:
    • 4ReplaceSky
    • 5ReplaceSky
    • 6ReplaceSky
  • 5) Show Mr. Salzman your final documents

1Hearts and starsafter.jpg2Sky.jpg3NotaSanta.jpg

4Replace.jpg 5ReplaceSky.jpg6ReplaceSky.jpg


Tuesday, February 7
DM19 - Download the 3 folders for today. W21_2A, W21_2B, W21_2C
  • DM19 -> W21_2_Workspace_Video
    • Watch the Video and create the workspace
  • Replace your Font Collections with those provided. Mr. Salzman will explain.
Monday, February 6
  • Hi Designers, Today we will work on "making selections". Yes I know you have used some of the selection tools, but today we will be introduced to a few more. Watch the video and follow along making the selections as shown. The file is supplied at DM19 W21_1_Making_Selections

END OF SEMESTER 1

Week 20 - January 30-Feb 3, 2017

Top 10 Photoshop Video

Week 19 - January 23-27, 2017

Top 10 Photoshop Video

Week 18 - January 16-20, 2017

Friday, January 20
  • Complete Martha's and Trumaine's photoshop lesson
Thursday, January 19
  • Snowman - How to paint a shadow to create shape
Wednesday, January 18
  • Snowman - How to load Snowflake brush
Tuesday, January 17
  • Load software
Monday, January 16 - NO SCHOOL Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration

Week 17 - January 9-13, 2017

Thursday - Friday, January 12-13
  • Ask Mr. Salzman about AP Computer Science
  • As a group, will will merge 2 files. This is Martha's and Trumaines Lesson

martha trumaine.jpgcity_and_girls_by_tapash_editz_by_tapash_editz-daer03h.jpg

Monday-Wednesday, January 9-11
  • Create a snowman in Photoshop
    • we will work together as a class
    • Written istructions will be provided
Snowman_Selection.jpg

Week 16 - December 19-23, 2016

Monday-Tuesday, December 19-20
  • Finish Assembling Calendar

Week 15 - December 12-16, 2016

Monday-Friday, December 12-16
  • Continue Assembling Calendar

Week 14 - December 5-9, 2016

Friday, December 9
  • Add photos to your calendar
    • Create a new page
    • draw a rectangle
    • FILE -> PLACE
    • OBJECT > FITTING > FILL FRAME PROPORTIONALLY
    • OBJECT > FITTING > FIT CONTENT PROPORTIONALLY
Thursday, December 8
  • Find at least 12 photographs for your calendar
    • If from the internet, be sure to use the highest quality image
    • Place them in a folder, in Week 14 folder
    • Due at end of class
Tuesday-Wednesday, December 6-7
  • Complete calendar Jan-Dec
Monday, December 5
  • Continue working on Calendar
  • If you have questions ask someone who knows, no excuses

Week 13 - November 28-December 2, 2016

Wednesday-Thursday, November 30-December 1
  • Complete JANUARY
    • grade your work, on rubric provided
  • Complete the CHARACTER and PARAGRAPH Worksheet

Monday-Tuesday, November 28-29
Good Morning Designers, today we leave Illustrator and begin to work on a multipage document, a calendar.
We will use Adobe InDesign, a page layout program. Pictures and Illustrations are created in Photoshop and Illustrator. InDesign was created to assemble (called lay-out) photos and illustrations across a multipage document, like a book, pamphlet, calendar, brochure, etc.
  • Follow the directions provided and
    • create the documents
    • create the 1st page

Week 12 - November 21-25, 2016 - NO SCHOOL WED-FRI - THANKSGIVING

Monday-Tuesday, November 21-22
  • Finish all assignments

Week 11 - November 14-18, 2016

Friday, November 17
  • Finish first phase of Personal Website. 9 total images should be posted to your site, these 8 listed below, plus 1 of them in both jpg and gif format
Thursday, November 17
  • Continue first phase of Personal Website. 9 total images should be posted to your site, these 8 listed below, plus 1 of them in both jpg and gif format
Wednesday, November 16
  • Continue first phase of Personal Website. 9 total images should be posted to your site, these 8 listed below, plus 1 of them in both jpg and gif format
    • The 25 InDesign Document
    • Button
    • Banana Gradient Mesh
    • Apple Gradient Mesh
    • Rickshaw Logo
    • 3rd Ilustration & Sketch (Extra Credit adding sketch)
    • 2nd Illustration & Sketch (Extra Credit adding sketch)
    • Bugs Bunny Illustration and Sketch (Extra Credit adding sketch)
  • https://billy525.wordpress.com
Tuesday, November 15
  • Continue first phase of Personal Website
Monday, November 14
  • On your personal website,
    • Add your Illustrations under Illustrations and Logos

Week 10 - November 7-11, 2016

Friday - Veterans Day
Thursday - Report Card Pick-up
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
  • Convert your images to .jpg
  • Add a LOGOS page as a sub page under designs
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
https://valerie825.wordpress.com
  • Create Personal Website in Wordpress
    • Theme = HEXA
    • Add a WELCOME post to your HOME post
    • Add a DESIGNS page
    • Add a LESSONS page
    • Add a CAREER page
    • Add an ILLUSTRATIONS page as a sub page under DESIGNS

Monday, Nov 7
  • Create a 25 Illustrations InDesign Document
    • we will do this together


List of Illustrator Assignments
  • Button
  • Banana Gradient Mesh
  • Apple Gradient Mesh
  • Rickshaw Logo
  • Alphabet Pen Tool
  • 3rd Ilustration & Sketch
  • 10 worksheets of Top Ten Tools
  • 2nd Illustration & Sketch
  • Bugs Bunny Illustration and Sketch

Week 9 - October 31 - November 4, 2016

Thursday, Nov 3 (No Class on Friday)
  • Create art for another button. Start from scratch, do not use your old art. Due Today

Wednesday, November 2
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  • Finish Button
Tuesday, November 1
  • REACH Performance Task
Monday, October 31
  • Continue Button

Week 8 - October 24-28, 2016

Thursday-Friday, October 27-28
  • Let's make a button
  • Buttons1.png
  • Buttons2.png
Wednesday, October 26
  • Complete any outstanding assignments
Tuesday, October 25
  • Create a Gradient Mesh from a photo of a banana
    • Choose your photo from a google search
Monday, October 24
  • Complete the Apple Gradient Mesh
    • Add a gradient mesh to the stem
    • Add a gradient mesh to the leaf
    • Add a gradient mesh to the top-back part of the apple

Week 7 - October 17-21, 2016

Thursday-Friday, October 20-21
  • Gradient Mesh - Create an Apple vector images using Gradient Mesh
    • Apple
    • Due end of class Friday
Wednesday, October 19 - No Class. Testing
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
  • Complete the Rickshaw Logo
  • Which of the 2 below is your preferred logo?
RickshawDale.jpgTukTuk-BC.jpg
Monday, October 17, 2016
  • Create a Rickshaw Logo using the techniques learned in the Pizza Logo assignment.
    • Keep it simple
    • Due end of class tomorrow, Tuesday, October 18.
Rickshaw2.jpgRickshaw1.jpg
Rickshaw3.jpg

Week 6 - October 10-14, 2016

Friday, Oct 14
  • Hot Keys
    • A = Direct Selection
    • V = Selection
    • P = Pen
  • Small Circle = close a path
  • Slash = add to a path
  • + = add an anchor point
  • - = subtract an anchor point
  • > = convert a point

Pathfinder Panel - used to make holes in an object, like a donut.
  • Do your best to complete the Alphabet Pen exercise.
    • Add your name and date and print.
  • Turn in the following, (Stapled Please)
    • Pen tool
    • All your Illustrations
Thursday, Oct 13
  • Pen tool practice
    • Download W6_3_Alphabet_Pen folder from DM 19
Wednesday, October 12
  • Finish Illustration
Tuesday, October 11
  • Recover from the almost strike and work on Illustrations
Monday, October 10
  • No School - Columbus Day

Week 5 - October 3-7, 2016

Tuesday-Friday, Oct 4-7
  • Complete your 3rd Illustration. See links from September 15 for ideas
Monday, Oct 3
  • Complete worksheets on the TOP TEN TOOLS

Week 4 - September 26-30, 2016

Friday, Sept 30
  • Watch Videos and complete worksheets on the TOP TEN TOOLS
    • Videos 9-10
Thursday, Sept 28
  • Watch Videos and complete worksheets on the TOP TEN TOOLS
    • Videos 7-8
Wednesday, Sept 28
  • Watch Videos and complete worksheets on the TOP TEN TOOLS
    • Videos 5-6
Tuesday, Sept 27
  • Watch Videos and complete worksheets on the TOP TEN TOOLS
    • Videos 3-4
Monday, Sept 26

Week 3 - September 19-23, 2016

Friday, Sept 23
Thursday, Sept 22
Wednesday, Sept 21
Tuesday, Sept 20
Monday, Sept 19

Week 2 - September 12-16, 2016

Friday, Sept 16
  • Continue 2nd Illustration
Thursday, Sept 15
Wednesday, Sept 14
America's Got Talent 2016 Musicality Inspirational Inner-City Choir Live Shows Round 1 S11E12
  • Continue outlining Bugs with pencil tool
    • discuss fill stroke
Tuesday, Sept 13
Monday, Sept 12
  • The desk work areas now have guidelines to position the computer and keyboard. Please use these when you clean-up your workstation at the end of class.
  • America's Got Talent 2016 Semi-Finals Musicality S11E18
  • Why do Graphic Design Ep17/45 - 1st half of video is Pro's, take notes
  • Begin Illustrating Bugs in Illustrator
    • File -> New
    • File -> Place
    • Window -> Layers, add new layer, lock scan layer
    • Use Pencil Tool to draw outlines on layer 2

Week 1 - September 5-9, 2016

Monday, Sept 5 - No School Labor Day
Tuesday, Sept 6
  • Ice Breaker - lineup by birthday
  • Log into computers, use your cps id and password
  • Open the file in DM19 which will direct you to our class wiki page.
Wednesday, Sept 7
  • Go to our class wiki www.CurieDigitalMedia2019.wikispaces.com
  • IceBreaker - find each others first name
Thursday, Sept 8
  • Ask your neighbor (Mr. Salzman will assign neighbors) the following
    • What is their favorite color?
    • What is their favorite musician/band?
    • What is their favorite sport to play?
    • What is their favorite video game?
  • Log in to your computer using your CPS name and password
    • Find the icon DM19
    • Open the W1_4 folder and drag Classroom_2016_17 to your desktop
  • Complete your sketch of Bugs Bunny. Instructions can be found at http://www.wikihow.com/Draw-Bugs-Bunny
Friday, Sept 9